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Article: Growth factor associates with spleen enlargement in blood disorder.
- Article from:
- Angiogenesis Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2002
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2002 NOV 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Polycythemia has joined the growing list of diseases associated with complications correlated with excess vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production.
In the case of polycythemia, researchers at the University of Lincoln, which is located in the United Kingdom, have linked VEGF expression with splenomegaly.
Using highly sensitive assays, P. Murphy and colleagues analyzed the sera of 16 polycythemia patients for levels of erythropoietin and VEGF and then compared those values with the appearance of splenomegaly within the patient group. Ten of the patients had ...